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Bush became President in the year 2000. That was break my break out my calculator 2021 – 2000 = 21 years ago. It occurs to me that our younger readers, born in 2000, or even 1990, may not know how genuinely horrid Bush was, as President.
I was blogging even back then, and I remember how horrid Bush was; certainly worse than Trump, at least for Trump’s first three years in office, until the Covid pandemic. To convey the full horror of the Bush years would not a series of posts, but a book. The entire experience was wretched and shameful.
Of the many horrors of the Bush years, I will pick three. (I am omitting many, many others, including Hurricane Katrina, the Plame Affair, Medicare Part D, the Cheney Energy Task Force, that time Dick Cheney shot an old man in the face, Bush’s missing Texas Air National Guard records, Bush gaslighting the 2004 Republican National Convention with terror alerts, and on and on and on. An I didn’t even get to 9/11, “You’ve covered your
‘The NYPD Cannot Bargain Away Its Disclosure Obligations’: Police Unions Suffer Massive Defeat in Federal Court Colin Kalmbacher © Provided by Law & Crime
Unions representing New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers were dealt a decisive loss in federal court on Tuesday after unsuccessfully suing to keep in place a regime of state secrecy that benefits law enforcement at the expense of public transparency.
The case stems from the summer 2020 rollback of Section 50-a of the New York State Civil Rights Law, a law which was used for decades by police departments across the Empire State to withhold individual police officers’ disciplinary records from the press–even after officers had been credibly accused of bad behavior.